Homelander Posted September 6, 2020 Share Posted September 6, 2020 (edited) Ms Parti Liyani was accused of stealing a $1,000 Pioneer DVD player and two Longchamp bags worth about $200 each from Mr Liew Mun Leong. In her defence, Ms Parti said that in 2012 or 2013, Mr Liew's wife, Madam Ng Lai Peng, wanted to throw the DVD player away because it was broken, but agreed to let her take it back to Indonesia to fix. Madam Ng said in court, however, that the DVD player was not broken. At the trial, it was shown that the device could play a video digitally stored in the hard disk. However, a demonstration at the appeal showed that when a DVD was inserted into the player, the error message "could not initialise disc" was displayed. Justice Chan Seng Onn said a DVD player that is unable to play a DVD can reasonably be described as "spoilt". He found it likely that the Liews no longer wanted the "partially spoilt" player. As for the bags, Ms Parti said she had found them "near the rubbish bin" at a neighbour's house at the end of 2010. In contradiction, Mr Liew said in court he had bought the bags, but when pressed for details, could not recall when or where he had bought them. Justice Chan found Mr Liew's evidence on ownership to be "lacking" as he could not specifically and positively identify the particular bags alleged to be stolen. Edited September 6, 2020 by Homelander 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homelander Posted September 6, 2020 Author Share Posted September 6, 2020 SINGAPORE - A former domestic worker has been cleared by the High Court of stealing more than $34,000 worth of items from Changi Airport Group (CAG) chairman Liew Mun Leong and his family. Miss Parti Liyani, who worked for the family from 2007 to 2016, had appealed to the High Court against her conviction and sentence of two years and two months' jail. Her lawyer, Mr Anil Balchandani, who acted pro bono, had argued at her appeal that she was being framed to prevent her from lodging a complaint against the family for illegal deployment. Mr Balchandani said that besides working at the family home, Miss Parti, who is Indonesian, was also told to clean the office and home of Mr Liew's son Karl. On Friday (Sept 4), Justice Chan Seng Onn allowed her appeal and overturned her conviction on four theft charges. He found that there was an “improper motive” on the part of Mr Liew and his son to prevent her from complaining to the authorities. This was because the defence had not cross-examined all the witnesses on the alleged collusion and had not cross-examined Mr Karl Liew’s wife, Heather, and sister, Cheng May, on their motives. The court heard that in October 2016, the older Mr Liew, who was then overseas, decided to sack Miss Parti. On Oct 28, 2016, Mr Karl Liew told Miss Parti that her employment was terminated and gave her two hours to pack. While she was packing items into three jumbo boxes, she uttered a threat to lodge a complaint with the Manpower Ministry. She returned to Indonesia that day, after asking Mr Karl Liew to pay for the boxes to be shipped to her. The next day, the family opened the boxes and spent two hours checking the contents. A 21-second video was recorded of the items that were taken out. However, the judge said that the defence’s specific allegation that there was collusion by all the members of the Liew family cannot stand. They found items that allegedly belonged to members of the household and a police report was made on Oct 30, after Mr Liew returned to Singapore. However, it was five weeks later, on Dec 3, that the police attended to the scene. It was the day after Miss Parti returned to Singapore and she was arrested. In her defence, Miss Parti argued that the alleged stolen items were either her belongings, discarded objects that she found, or things that she had not packed into the boxes. In his 100-page judgment, Justice Chan found that there was a break in the chain of custody of evidence. This creates a reasonable doubt as to whether some of the allegedly stolen items discovered by the family on Oct 29 were accurately documented by the photographs taken by the police some five weeks later. During this period, the family was told by the police that they were free to use the items. They took and put back items into the boxes but it is not clear if the items put back were the same ones that were removed earlier, creating a real possibility of a mix up, said the judge. Justice Chan also found that two statements were taken from Miss Parti without an interpreter and there was reasonable doubt about the accuracy of the translation. The judge also had serious doubts about Mr Karl Liew’s credibility, finding his testimony to be “highly suspect”. Mr Karl Liew said during the trial that various items of female clothing, allegedly stolen by Miss Parti, belonged to him and that he sometimes wore women’s T-shirts. Mr Karl Liew claimed a damaged Gerald Genta watch was valued at $25,000 despite the fact that the strap was broken and had a missing button-knob. He said it had sentimental value because his father gave it to him but the older man said it was just another watch he had given to his son. Justice Chan added that many of the items alleged to be stolen were old, dysfunctional and low in value. This reinforced Miss Parti’s defence that she had in fact found these items in the trash. The items included the Gerald Genta watch, a Pioneer DVD player, two iPhones, a Prada bag with frayed edges and a pair of Gucci sunglasses with red stains. Mr Balchandani told the court that he would be making an application for compensation to be paid to Miss Parti, who has not worked for the past four years. After the verdict, she sobbed and hugged her lawyer and staff from the migrant workers group, Humanitarian Organization for Migration Economics. She told reporters: “I’m so glad that I’m finally free. I’ve been fighting for four years now and I have been strong all this while.” 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
socrates469bc Posted September 6, 2020 Share Posted September 6, 2020 only 1 dirtbag at the tip of landfill. i cant imagine how many there r still out there. especially with this axington show now on. nb, can be pa advisors and have obama ex-ambassador as board director mean not simple. how many more, we also dont know. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aaur4man Posted September 6, 2020 Share Posted September 6, 2020 Yup so many. It takes the masses power to sieve them out. Not just a pro bono lawyer 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Camper Posted September 6, 2020 Share Posted September 6, 2020 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meng.huat Posted September 6, 2020 Share Posted September 6, 2020 6 hours ago, Homelander said: Mr Karl Liew said during the trial that various items of female clothing, allegedly stolen by Miss Parti, belonged to him and that he sometimes wore women’s T-shirts. father is boss of CAG son also become CAG... 5 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homelander Posted September 6, 2020 Author Share Posted September 6, 2020 16 minutes ago, meng.huat said: father is boss of CAG son also become CAG... Wahaha sibei clever pun 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Camper Posted September 6, 2020 Share Posted September 6, 2020 54 minutes ago, meng.huat said: father is boss of CAG son also become CAG... Changi airport group..... chao ah gua.... 😁 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ManOfTheHour Posted September 6, 2020 Share Posted September 6, 2020 Nabei so rich still using dvd and longchamp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_King Posted September 7, 2020 Share Posted September 7, 2020 (edited) 2 hours ago, ManOfTheHour said: Nabei so rich still using dvd and longchamp i think the DVD player is not those cheapo DVD player. if it those Hi FI grade DVD player, they are expensive..... those DVD player can cost a few thousand. and the most expensive i saw before saw $8k no one selling those dvd anymore and they have been taking over by blueray . this pioneer blueray cost 3k https://www.bestdenki.com.sg/blu-ray-player/pioneer/udp-lx800 Edited September 7, 2020 by The_King Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ManOfTheHour Posted September 7, 2020 Share Posted September 7, 2020 18 minutes ago, The_King said: i think the DVD player is not those cheapo DVD player. if it those Hi FI grade DVD player, they are expensive..... those DVD player can cost a few thousand. and the most expensive i saw before saw $8k no one selling those dvd anymore and they have been taking over by blueray . this pioneer blueray cost 3k https://www.bestdenki.com.sg/blu-ray-player/pioneer/udp-lx800 Exactly my point with regard to DVDs being phased out for more than 10 years liao. It will look pixelated on OLED tv unless they so rich still using old tv Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_King Posted September 7, 2020 Share Posted September 7, 2020 6 minutes ago, ManOfTheHour said: Exactly my point with regard to DVDs being phased out for more than 10 years liao. It will look pixelated on OLED tv unless they so rich still using old tv they quote the price they brought. if you buy for 3k, you tell ppl it cost you 3k not the current price Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meng.huat Posted September 7, 2020 Share Posted September 7, 2020 19 minutes ago, The_King said: they quote the price they brought. if you buy for 3k, you tell ppl it cost you 3k not the current price ya lo... these greedy people... they quoted $25k for a broken watch. I guess the $25k is the recommended retail price. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meng.huat Posted September 7, 2020 Share Posted September 7, 2020 In his judgement of the appeal, Chan also stated his doubt regarding Karl. The younger Liew had claimed that various items of female clothing and accessories allegedly stolen belonged to him. This included a black dress, that Karl later said was a mistake when confronted with it in court. On another occasion, he testified that he had a habit of cross-dressing. "Karl’s dishonesty on the stand was plainly evident from his testimony," said the judge. https://mothership.sg/2020/09/domestic-helper-34k-changi-airport-group/ Mothership dont give face... straightaway used the CAG term on Karl Liew, cross-dressing! I think Cross-dressing is more BTSS than chao ghey... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ManOfTheHour Posted September 7, 2020 Share Posted September 7, 2020 49 minutes ago, meng.huat said: Mothership dont give face... straightaway used the CAG term on Karl Liew, cross-dressing! I think Cross-dressing is more BTSS than chao ghey... 2 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meng.huat Posted September 7, 2020 Share Posted September 7, 2020 52 minutes ago, ManOfTheHour said: Boon Wah zeh zeh used to post in edmw.xyz her nickname was reassembledhearts. she like bears. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ManOfTheHour Posted September 7, 2020 Share Posted September 7, 2020 38 minutes ago, meng.huat said: Boon Wah zeh zeh used to post in edmw.xyz her nickname was reassembledhearts. she like bears. Got try to date? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meng.huat Posted September 7, 2020 Share Posted September 7, 2020 40 minutes ago, ManOfTheHour said: Got try to date? she is seeing someone now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ManOfTheHour Posted September 7, 2020 Share Posted September 7, 2020 9 minutes ago, meng.huat said: she is seeing someone now Heard she stay boon lay. Maybe can bump into you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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